Limbaugh: Conservatives Have Lost the Marriage Debate
Says conservatives let the word "marriage" become "bastardized"
(CNN) - Conservatives who oppose same-sex marriage must accept that they've "lost the issue," radio host Rush Limbaugh argued Thursday.
"This issue is lost," the conservative firebrand said. "I don't care what the Supreme Court does, this is now inevitable - and it's inevitable because we lost the language on this. "
Limbaugh went on to assert conservatives "lost the issue when we started allowing the word 'marriage' to be bastardized and redefined by simply adding words to it."
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Language changes quite frequently. In fact, "marriage" sometimes refers to a corporate merger.
Or more accurately, some have come to realize that separation of marriage and state is the TRUE Conservative position.